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Santiago Thomás de Carranza y Méndez de Vigo
Co-founding Partner
Contact: santiagotc@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Corporate and Commercial Law | Administrative Law - Regulatory - Regulated Sectors | Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) - Venture Capital | Real Estate
Sectors: Construction | Family Business | Energy | Finance | Fundamental Rights Protection
Education: Licenciado en Derecho por la UCM. Bachelor Degree in Economisc por la Chiller International University. Estudios de Doctorado (DEA-Cátedra UNESCO).
Languages: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Santiago Thomas de Carranza is a co-founder of the firm. Practicing lawyer. Economist. University Professor. After finishing his university studies, he prepared for the competitive examinations to the body of Law Clerks of the Council of State. In 1997 he joined Melchor de las Heras Law Firm as a lawyer, where he was part of the commercial law and public law departments. In 2003, he founded the firm Thomás de Carranza Abogados, of which he is currently managing partner.
Santiago has extensive practical experience in the field of commercial and financial law as well as in administrative regulatory law (contentious and advisory) and procedural law.
In the field of commercial and financial law, he has participated in numerous transactions involving the purchase and sale of companies, investment and disinvestment, venture capital, as well as in the preparation, negotiation and drafting of contracts, agreements and collaboration agreements between companies of different types. He has also advised on the start-up and development of numerous business processes, both in Spain and abroad, working regularly with lawyers from different countries and jurisdictions (start-ups; development capital; shareholder agreements; mergers; spin-offs; separation processes; etc.), and has also participated in the design and implementation of different sale and purchase and financing structures, mainly linked to the real estate sector and the field of renewable energies, advising his clients both in the preliminary phase of construction, supply and start-up of the facilities, as well as in the financing phase.
In the area of administrative regulatory law, Santiago has considerable practical experience in both the advisory and procedural fields. He has advised the Ministry of Public Works in the development of the toll road program and its adaptation to the new financing techniques, as well as other public entities and organizations. He has also advised different individuals and private entities in their relations with the Public Administrations in matters as diverse as public procurement, works, service and public domain concessions (water, ports, roads, etc.), health services, postal services, environment, telecommunications, energy, public liability, expropriations, urban planning, sports, etc. Santiago has participated in numerous transactions involving the acquisition and sale of companies operating in the public administration sector (energy, concessionary companies and contractors of the public administration, telecommunications, radio, etc.), as well as in the incorporation and management of regulated entities (venture capital companies, investment services companies, etc.).
In the field of procedural law, Santiago has more than 20 years of experience, mainly in the field of contentious-administrative jurisdiction and civil and commercial jurisdiction. He has also participated as counsel in different arbitration proceedings (both in law and equity). He has been Chairman of the Appeals Committee of the Royal Spanish Equestrian Federation (2008-2010) and is currently Chairman of the Sports Disciplinary Committee of the Royal Spanish Equestrian Federation, of which he has been a member since 2010. He is also an arbitrator in the AEADE Court of Arbitration. Santiago has been recommended by the prestigious international directory Best Lawyers as one of the best procedural lawyers in the country (period 2013 to date).
As far as his links to the university world are concerned, only mentioning that Santiago has been a professor of civil procedural law and contentious-administrative law at the School of Legal Practice of the Complutense University of Madrid since 2000; professor of administrative law at the Francisco de Vitoria University since 2001; member of the Faculty and Academic Council of the Master in European Union Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid since 2012 (professor of professional deontology); professor of administrative law at the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB) since 2019; and guest lecturer at the Master in Radio of the COPE Foundation. He is the author of various doctrinal studies and articles and has had the honour of participating as a speaker at various legal seminars.
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José Leandro Martínez-Cardós Ruiz
Consultant-Partner
Contact: jlmcruiz@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Administrative Law - Regulatory - Regulated Sectors | Industrial and intellectual property – Data protection – Advertisement and consumer goods – Technology
Sectors: Construction
Education: Licenciado en Derecho y en Ciencias Políticas. Doctor en Derecho y en Geografía e Historia. Letrado Mayor del Consejo de Estado. Del Cuerpo Jurídico Militar. Profesor Titular de la Escuela de Práctica Jurídica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid - Arbitro de la Corte Civil y Mercantil de Arbitraje (CIMA); de la Corte de Arbitraje del Colegio de Abogados de Madrid; del Tribunal Arbitral de la Construcción y del Tribunal Arbitral de la Contratación Pública de la Asociación Europea de Arbitraje (AEADE) - Académico correspondiente de la Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación.
José Leandro Martínez-Cardós is a consultant-partner at the firm and specialises in Administrative Law, Arbitration-Procedural Law and Aviation and Maritime Law. A practising lawyer. Senior Counsel to the Council of State. Military Justice Corps. Doctor of Law and of History and Geography. Holds a degree in Law and in Political Science and Sociology. Qualified in Public Accountancy and European Union Law. Associate Professor of the Legal Practice School of Complutense University of Madrid.
During his career spanning over 30 years, José Leandro has had the opportunity to advise many of the most important companies in the country and has represented them in numerous legal and arbitration proceedings. Moreover, he has acted as secretary of the Board of Directors for many commercial companies and been Legal Counsel to the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA).
José Leandro has extensive and successful experience in arbitration, whether of law or equity. He is an arbiter of: the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration since its establishment in 1988; the Court of Arbitration of the Madrid Law Society; the Construction Arbitral Tribunal and the Public Procurement Arbitral Tribunal of the European Association of Arbitration (AEADE). Likewise, he has been an ad-hoc arbitrator in many proceedings.
Since 1987, José Leandro has been an Academic of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. Member of the Spanish Chapter of the International Insurance Law Association since 1988. Member of the Spanish Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Member of the Editorial Board of the Procedural Law Journal and the Spanish Military Law Journal. Consultant to the General Law Journal and the Digital Law Review. Chair of the Law Society of the Council of State.
Finally, in relation to his educational activities, José Leandro has been Associate Professor of Administrative Procedures and Adversarial-Administrative Jurisdiction at the Legal Practice School of the Law Faculty of the Complutense University of Madrid since 1985. He has lectured at several universities, spoken in numerous courses, seminars and conferences and is the author of many books and articles dealing with diverse themes such as: Foreign Investment in Spain; Public Authority Material Liability; State Liability; Public Services; Public Procurement; Compulsory Purchases; Maritime Law; Land and Real Estate; Technical Regulations; Transport and many more.
Jose Leandro was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Spain 2018 in the fields of Administrative Law.
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Christian Mesía Martínez
Partner
Contact: christian.mesia@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Economic Crime – Compliance – Regulatory Compliance – Director Responsibility
Sectors: Fundamental Rights Protection
Education Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad San Pablo CEU. Estudios de Doctorado (DEA – San Pablo CEU).
Languages: Español e Inglés.
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. Asociación Internacional contra el Fraude y la Corrupción - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
Christian Mesía Martínez is the partner overseeing the Crime and Regulatory Compliance Departments of the law firm. Practising lawyer for over 17 years. University lecturer. He studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained his Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) at the CEU San Pablo University. Christian specialises in corporate criminal law, regulatory compliance and international criminal law . He is also compliance officer for many national and international companies and actively collaborates with the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE) in programmes dealing with Corporate Criminal Responsibility, compliance programmes and good company governance.
During his 17 year career, Christian has defended both individuals and companies, whether national or foreign, who were facing criminal charges. The large majority of international consulates in Spain actually recommend Christian to their citizens who find themselves facing criminal charges.
In the higher education sphere, Christian is a lecturer at the CEU San Pablo University, Carlos III, the Business Institute, the ESCP Europe Business School and the EUDE Business School. He has spoken at many seminars and round table talks on Corporate Social Responsibility and other current affairs related to his expertise. He co-authored the manual “Gobierno Corporativo y Responsabilidad de Administradores” [Corporate Governance and Director Responsibility] (Publishers: Aranzadi) and has written numerous articles for reputable economic journals. He was also judge at the CEU San Pablo University’s prestigious Moot Case League.
He is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
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Iñigo Sánchez del Campo Basagoiti
Partner
Contact: inigosc@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Corporate and Commercial Law | Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) - Venture Capital | Real Estate | Insolvency Law
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management | Family Business | Services - Entertainment | Regulated Entities / Investment Services Companies | Multi-currency mortgages / Land clauses / Stocks / Preferred bonds / Convertible bonds / Bonds / Swaps / Leveraged loans / Portfolio management / Investment services
Education: Graduate in Law from UCM. Degree in Economics from CES Villanueva. Diploma in Administrative/Municipal Law from the School of Legal Practice of the Complutense University of Madrid.
Languages: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Iñigo Sánchez del Campo Basagoiti joined Thomás de Carranza Abogados in 2004, and is currently a Partner specialized in Commercial and Real Estate Law, developing the Real Estate Legal Management Area of the Firm, of which he is co-responsible. During his more than 15 years of professional experience, Iñigo has always been linked to the business world, focusing his professional activity on issues related to Commercial Law, Corporate Law, contractual activity of companies, relationships between partners, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence processes, corporate governance, compliance, etc., in very diverse sectors of activity (residential, hotel, renewable energies, supplies, health, transport).
Currently, Iñigo is in charge of the day-to-day advice of a large number of real estate companies (SII, FII, Socimi's, family estates), participating in the management and resolution of all their disputes, assuming in many cases the management of the secretariats of the Boards of Directors of these companies. Likewise, Iñigo is involved in the regulatory management of the Socimis he represents, advising them and managing their activity with the continuous market and alternative markets (BME Growth, Euronext...). Likewise, Iñigo maintains his judicial activity, assuming the legal representation of all types of legal proceedings in the civil, bankruptcy and contentious-administrative fields, which gives him an enriched vision in the practice of business advice to his clients.
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Rafael Truan Blanco
Of counsel
Contact: rafaeltb@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Commercial Law, Mergers & Acquisitions e Real Estate Law.
Sectores: Department of Real Estate Legal Management, Services - Entertainment, Family Business y Financial Entities.
Education: Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, San Pablo, CEU.
Languages: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Rafael Truan Blanco is of counsel of the firm. A practising lawyer for more than 30 years he is specialised in company and commercial law and real estate.
During his professional career, he has practiced as a specialist in Spanish Law in London for six years. He is accustomed to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and to manage and coordinate international legal advisors. He has acted as a national and international legal advisor heading the legal department of several Spanish companies, and has a wide experience in international real estate as well as in internationalization of companies.
He has advised a number of companies in sectors such as renewables energies, real estate, telecommunications, construction or media in the opening of their markets in countries of America, Europe and Asia. He has advised in numerous corporate restructuring cases as well, on behalf of foreign multinationals with presence in our country. He was named leading Spanish lawyer in agency and distribution by the prestigious publication Global Counsel 3000, in the year 2002 and currently, since 2020, as Best Lawyer in Spain in Merges and Acquisitions by the directory Best Lawyers in Spain.
Rafael is the Executive Director of our international network of lawyers, The Law Firm Network.
He has been Chairman of the Management of Law Firms Committee of the Union Internationale des Avocats based in Paris, Director of Publications of the same organization and co-editor of its legal magazine “Juriste International”, as well as Chairman of the Real Estate Committee of the International Bar Association based in London. Rafael is the secretary and treasurer of the “Jane Austen Society España”.
Rafael has lectured at City University of London in Urban Planning and Spanish Real Estate Law and in Introduction to Spanish Law at the University of Westminster in London and has participated as a speaker in a good number of conferences of legal organizations and chambers of commerce. He is the author of publications and articles on Spanish Law and foreign investments in Spain.
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Cristina Simón Amián
Lawyer
Contact: cristina.simon@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Commercial Law, Insolvency Law, Margers & Acquisitions, Industrial and Intellectual Property y Tax Law.
Sectors: Services - Entertainment y Family Business.
Education: Licenciada en Derecho por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Diplomada en el Centro de Estudios Tributarios y Económicos de Madrid (CETE).
Language: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. Colegiada núm. 46.935
Cristina Simón Amián joined the law firm in 2005. A practising lawyer. A graduate of law from the Complutense University of Madrid. Received a diploma at the Madrid Centre for Economic and Taxation Studies (CETE).
Cristina specialises in Commercial, Procedural and Insolvency Law. Possessing solid experience in the field of company law, she advises companies from various sectors on the matters that affect them from day to day. Incorporation processes and commercial company development. Transfer of assets. Mergers and Acquisitions. Capital investments, company member agreements (shareholders’ or management agreements, capital increase and reductions, etc.). Negotiation and execution of commercial contracts. Secretariat of Spanish and foreign commercial companies.
Cristina boasts a wealth of experience in civil and insolvency procedures and takes on the technical management of numerous legal proceedings (claim procedures; contractual breaches; etc.).
Cristina was recently selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Spain 2018 in the fields of Tax Law.
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Eduardo Díaz Meco Illescas
Lawyer
Contact: eduardodm@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procesal y Administrativo.
Sectors: Reclamaciones servicios y productos Bancarios y Reclamaciones frente a la administración.
Education: Licenciado en Derecho por la Autónoma de Madrid. Máster MBA Administración y Dirección de Empresas.
Languages: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Eduardo Díaz-Meco is a practising lawyer, member of the Madrid Bar Association and Director of the Litigation Department of the firm. He has extensive experience in Civil, Criminal and Contentious-Administrative Procedural Law, in Arbitration proceedings and in Information Technology and Communications Law. He has participated in litigation with media impact in the Spanish judicial scene, defending the interests of large national and multinational companies. He has successfully intervened in all types of litigation in contractual and non-contractual matters, corporate, criminal, contentious-administrative, bankruptcy, etc. The clients whose interests he has defended come from the most varied sectors: telecommunications, real estate, hotels, or energy. He also has considerable experience in arbitration proceedings between some of the most important companies in the country.
He has a PhD in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and an MBA in Business Administration, Management and Management from the Camilo José Cela University. He has a degree in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid. In addition to numerous courses and seminars related to administrative and contentious-administrative practice, the Master's Degree in Information and Communication Technologies Consultancy and Advice at the Real Centro Universitario Escorial María Cristina, or the Master's Degree in Labour Law Consultancy at the Centro de Estudios Financieros, stand out. It also has important training in Security Governance for the IT Environment or Information Security.
He is a Professor of the General Postgraduate Course at the School of Legal Practice, and of Property Law in the Master's Degree in Access to the Legal Profession at the Villanueva University Centre, attached to the Complutense University of Madrid, since 2014.
Eduardo has been included by his colleagues since 2016 in ©The Best Lawyers in Spain in the area of Administrative Law.
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Victoria Terleira Castelló
Lawyer
Contact: victoria.terleira@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Licenciada en Derecho por la UNED.
Languages: Español e Inglés.
Bar Association: Madrid Bar Association
Graduated in Law from the UNED in Madrid and Master in Access to Legal Private Practice from the Escuela de Experiencia Profesional in Madrid and Master in Labour Law from the UDIMA/CEF in Madrid, Victoria is a lawyer in the area of Real Estate Litigation in the Real Estate Legal Management team since 2014.
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Susana Falcón Martínez
Lawyer
Contact: susana.falcon@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Licenciada en Derecho por la UNED.
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Practicing attorney procedural-estate area. Law degree from UNED.
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Marta Caldevilla Robledo
Lawyer – Associate
Contact: marta.caldevilla@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Licenciada en Derecho por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Languages: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Lawyer practicing at the Real Estate Legal Management Department. Grade in Law at Universidad Carlos III.
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Alejandro Gómez-Gracia
Director Real Estate Legal Management and Business Development
Contact: alejandrogg@tc-abogados.com
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Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Diploma in Business Administration and Management from the International Centre for Business Studies. Master’s Degree in Business and Urban Management from the Postgraduate and Business Training Area of the Francisco de Vitoria University and expert in Urban Planning and Real Estate Development, UDI Programme, by IPE.
Languages: Spanish, English
Alejandro Gómez-Gracia is manager at the Department of Real Estate Legal Management team of the firm where he manages the accounts and relations with our main real estate clients. Alejandro is also a member of the firm's Business Development and Marketing team. With more than 20 years of experience in the area of expansion and business in different sectors, he holds a Diploma in Business Administration and Management from the International Centre for Business Studies Master's Degree in Business and Urban Management from the Postgraduate and Business Training Area of the Francisco de Vitoria University and Expert in Urbanism and Real Estate Developments, UDI Program, by IPE.
Alejandro has a great track record in managing teams in national and international environments. He is used to negotiating with the Public Administration and senior management has managed and developed urban projects nationally and internationally. Defining and implementing the strategy, processes and commercial policies, project management, economic and financial approaches, etc.
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Laura Pineda Benito
Lawyer
Contact: laura@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate | Economic Crime – Compliance – Regulatory Compliance – Director Responsibility
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Degree in Law from the Universidad San Pablo CEU.
Languages: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese
Bar Association: Madrid Bar Association
Practising lawyer mainly in the Real Estate Management Area. Graduated in Law from the Universidad San Pablo CEU, expert in Insolvency Law from DEUSTO University. With several years of professional experience, Laura has practiced in different law firms in Madrid in the areas of civil and criminal proceedings and also taking the post of secretary of the board of several companies. Laura has devoted her time to in-court Legal Aid representation and pro bono assistance in prisons.
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María Gomes Sousa
Lawyer, Head of Labour Law
Contact: maria.gomes@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Labour Law
Sectors: Companies, Individuals, Services Industry | Family Business | Services - Entertainment
Education: Degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Master's Degree in Labour Law and Human Resources and Master's Degree in Corporate Labour Law and Labour Risk Prevention. Accreditation Ministry of the Interior in legal education in training centres for private security staff and Security Management and Management Degree in Security by the University Rey Juan Carlos.
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English.
Bar Association: Madrid Bar Association
María has a large professional trajectory and more than ten years of experience in this field. Until she joined the firm, María was for years the Director of Human Resources and Labour Legal Advice for a company with more than 500 workers, being responsible for: the procedural representation of the company in all kinds of administrative and judicial procedures of a labour nature; drafting of equality plans; training plans; selection of personnel and hiring of both common labour personnel and top management personnel; self-employed workers; negotiations with trade unions; collective agreements; trade union electoral processes; Collective Dismissals; payrolls and many more.
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María Leonor Amador de los Ríos Albaladejo
Lawyer
Contact: leonor.amadordelosrios@tc-abogados.com
Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Bachelor Degree by Salamanca University.
Languages: Spanish, English.
Bar Association: Madrid Bar Association
Lawyer practising at the Real Estate Legal Management group of the firm, Leonor holds a degree in Law by the Salamanca University.
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José Luis Alonso Núñez
Lawyer
Contact: joseluis.alonso@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate | Tax Law
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management | Claims Banking / Financial / Investment products and Services | Claims against the Administration, Local Taxes, IBI
Education: Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Master's degree in Taxation and Tax Advice from the Centro de Estudios Financieros. Diploma in the School of Legal Practice, attached to the UCM. General course of legal practice. Accounting course for tax advisors at the Centro de Estudios Financieros.
Languages: Spanish, English.
Bar Association: Madrid Bar Association
Practicing lawyer. His career has allowed him to specialize in the fields of civil procedural law and tax procedures In the field of Procedural Law, he has solid experience in judicial and extrajudicial advice in the daily legal management of real estate assets. His career has allowed him to know first hand the functioning of the Administration and to develop advice in Tax Law. He is a specialist in inheritance and gift tax, municipal capital gains tax, value checking, claims to economic administrative courts, IRNR, TPO ITPAJD.
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Cristina Oriol Ruiz-Gallardón
Partner
Contact: cristina.oriol@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Corporate and Commercial Law | Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) - Venture Capital | Real Estate | Insolvency Law
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management | Family Business | Services - Entertainment | Regulated Entities / Investment Services Companies
Education: Grado en Derecho y Marketing por la Universidad Complutense – C.U. Villanueva, Master Universitario en Práctica Jurídica especialidad empresarial Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
Languages: Spanish, English
Bar Association: Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
Cristina is a practicing lawyer in the Commercial - Corporate and Real Estate areas. She has worked as an intern at the Land Registry, the Spanish Consulate in Paris and at Notaries.
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David Martínez Polo
Lawyer
Contact: david.martinez@tc-abogados.com
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Practice Areas: Procedural Law - Arbitration | Real Estate
Sectors: Department of Real Estate Legal Management
Education: Law Degree from the University Autónoma of Madrid and Master's Degree in Access to the Legal Profession at ISDE.
Languages: Spanish, English.
Bar Association: Madrid Bar Association
David is a Lawyer practicing at the Real Estate Legal Management Department
